Objectives

• Review Bowlby's theory of attachment
• Explore the types of attachment
• Learn about Hazan and Shaver's Adult Attachment Theory
• Identify the impact of insecure attachment
• Explore ways to help clients change their attachment style and feel more secure in relationships
• Help clients increase awareness of their story including beliefs about and behavioral reactions to situations that trigger their fear of abandonment Learn about fear of abandonment
• Explore the concept of schemas or core beliefs Examine common traps in thinking, reacting and relationships
• Learn skills necessary to
• Accept their past as part of their story
• Acknowledge that their past does not have to continue to negatively impact them in the present